About the Authors

Balananda-Dhurjati Kumar Putcha

Contributed equally to this work with: Balananda-Dhurjati Kumar Putcha, Xu Jia, Venkat Rao Katkoori

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Xu Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Balananda-Dhurjati Kumar Putcha, Xu Jia, Venkat Rao Katkoori

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Venkat Rao Katkoori

Contributed equally to this work with: Balananda-Dhurjati Kumar Putcha, Xu Jia, Venkat Rao Katkoori

Current address: Department of Surgery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Chura Salih

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Chandrakumar Shanmugam

Current address: Department of Pathology, Bhaskar Medical College, NTR University of Health Sciences, Yenkapally Moinabad, R.R. Dist. Telangana, India

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Trafina Jadhav

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Liselle C. Bovell

Current address: Department of Surgery, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Michael P. Behring

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Tom Callens

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ludwine Messiaen

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sejong Bae

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

William E. Grizzle

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Karan P. Singh

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Upender Manne

manne@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDKP XJ VRK LCB UM. Performed the experiments: XJ VRK BDKP C. Salih LCB TC LM. Analyzed the data: BDKP XJ VRK C. Shanmugam TJ MPB SB KPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WEG TC LM. Wrote the paper: BDKP XJ VRK UM.